Vintage Cover Illustrations of Shukan Shincho by Rokuro Taniuchi

Sixty years ago this month Shukan Shincho began publishing their weekly magazine. The inaugural issue’s cover illustration featured a young girl in kimono walking on a breezy shoreline, fighting to keep her paper umbrella from blowing away. Behind her a train with homes as cars puffed along the water with billowing clouds of seashells rising from the smokestack. It was illustrated by artist Rokuro Taniuchi who, for the next 25 years, illustrated numerous covers for the magazine.
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